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Monday, March 31, 2008

This is the documovie I love so much! I tried so hard without much success to buy the DVD! It documents so poignantly the plight of illegal migrant workers. So much for globalization! Watch this!

Synopsis: When a young girl, Ai Qin, pays $25,000 to be smuggled into the UK in order to support her family back in China, she becomes another one of 3 million migrant workers. Risking their lives for pennies these unprotected workers end up cockling in Morcombe Bay at night.

With an extraordinary debut performance from Ai Qin Lin in a film whose principal characters are played by Chinese former illegal immigrants, Ghosts offers a unique insight into a secret world that surrounds us.

Every Bolshevik, every worker, every citizen of our Soviet land is clearly aware that if we had been able to defeat all these enemies of communism and all these contemptible anti-Bolshevik supporters, it was all because we are indebted to our great and glorious Stalin.

A speech by Nikita Khruschev, a delegate to the Eighteenth Party Congress, 1939.

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Stalin acted not through persuasion, explanation, and patient cooperation with people, but by imposing his concepts and demanding absolute submission to his opinion. Whoever opposed this concept or tried to prove his viewpoint, and the correctness of his position, was doomed to removal from the collective and to subsequent moral and physical punishment.

A speech by Nikita Khruschev, the new leader of Soviet Union, at the Twentieth Party Conference in 1956.